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OREANDA-NEWS. Company «Audi», owned by Volkswagen, intends to spin off its electric vehicles, which can be a challenge even for a recognized leader in this segment of Tesla. Reuters reports with referring to its sources.

After the scandal in the parent company related to emissions (diesel scandal Volkswagen), Audi as part of its strategic plan, will strive to ensure that electric vehicles will have a quarter of its sales by 2025. And if before in this area the company behaved not very active, then now it is ready to invest about one third of its budget on research and design (R & D) related to electric vehicles, digital services and unmanned driving.

The agency Reuters also considered that, if in the past year, the German automaker sold 1.8 million vehicles, then it is talking about the sale of at least 450,000 electric cars per a year. With such volumes Audi could become a serious competitor to the Tesla, who had stated previously that ot wants to reach the volume of 500 thousand electric cars by 2020 or even earlier.

To free up the funds for a new strategy, Audi is planning the budget cuts of some of its programs related with the internal combustion engines, also for the development of variants for engines and transmissions.